Being Asian, to the disgust of SJWs, typically correlates to intelligence / hard work / earned success and those things don’t fit into the Whites Are Holding Every Other Group Down narrative.
For that reason, Asians are put behind the bus with Whites and told to push the bus up the hill with other groups inside the bus enjoying the fruits of Asian and White labor.
All of that is systemic.
Asians should list their race a Caucasian, a little photoshop on the picture to look Hispanic, do a name change, and send in the application. You can always undo the name change after you get that huge scholarship offer.
They’ve been trying for a half a century and it doesn’t work; expect more of the same with the recent push to diversify “STEM”. Handing unqualified tokens meaningless papers doesn’t move them up the socio-economic ladder; it leaves them in low-level jobs which destroys their pampered egos. This is especially true in fields with certification testing (lawyers, engineers, doctors, etc.); they just hit that wall and that’s it - they end up as glorified secretaries and such because they don’t know the work.
Here in NJ they’re quietly removing Hispanics from the “preferred hire” list for government jobs (especially cops) because they do well without the “leg up” - and take all the seats from blacks and white women.